Creedence Clearwater Revival - “Proud mary“ Chords

Proud Mary is written by John Fogerty, like the wast majority of Creedence Clearwater Revival's songs. The song was a single from the band's second album "Bayou Country". Both the record and the single was released in early 1969. John Fogerty plays the lead guitar and his brother Tom Fogerty plays the rhythm guitar. Use these guitar chords to master their style. Fogerty wrote the famous chords and riff while he was playing around with the chords from Beethoven's fifth symphony!

Proud Mary has been covered by numerous artists and bands. There were 35 cover versions released in 1969 alone!

Creedence Clearwater Revival chords and guitar video lesson for Proud mary. Learn how to play Proud Mary on Acoustic Guitar. Related pages are Proud mary (Ver2) tabs, Proud mary (Ver2) chords, Proud mary (Ver2) bass tabs, Proud mary tabs, Proud mary bass tabs. See all Creedence Clearwater Revival tabs. Submit corrected and missing chords here.

These 'Proud mary' by Creedence Clearwater Revival chords also include lyrics.

Proud Mary
Creedence Clearwater Revival

~ means tie the notes

Intro
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  | | | | | | | |                   | | | |  |  |    | | | | |  |  |
 {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}                  {}{}{}{} {} {}   {}{}{}{}{} {} {}
|C     A         |       %        |C     A  G  F   |F       F6 F  D  |


  ___   _____   _
  | |   | | |   |                  continue rhythm
 {}{}, {}{}{}, {} 
|D               |       %        |


D
Left a good job in the city, workin for ...

and I never lost one minute of sleepin'...
            A                                  Bm
have been.  Big wheel a-keep on turnin'  ....
     D
Roll - in', rollin', ...(fill 1)  

repeat intro:

2nd verse:

D
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis,  ...

Orleans,  But I never saw the good side of ....
                       A                                 Bm
on a river boat queen. Big wheel a-keep on ....
              D
burnin,  roll - in, rollin, ....(fill 1)

repeat intro:

3rd verse:
D
if you come down to the river, bet you're ...

you don't have to worry, cause you ....
                A                              Bm
happy to give.  Big wheel keep on ....
    D
roll - in,  rollin,  ....(fill 1)  repeat and fade


FILL 1:
                                          / means slide into

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-----/7------7---5---3---5---3---------| 2
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-----/7------7---5---4---5---4---------| 4
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SOLO:

	All I have time to tell you is that most of it is alternating between
these two chords:  Bar your index finger at the 7th fret.

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---7---------8-------------|
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---7---------7-------------|
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---7---------9-------------|
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